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[+] -28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

No not a link to a wiki but the pervasive weird ass AI favored descriptions of all images in Lemmy. It’s fucking weird

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's not for AI, its for accessibility. Alt text is a user-generated description of an image that's been standardized for screen readers. It also helps to have a text description if the image hosting breaks.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    So why is alt text suddenly no longer aria tags and otherwise? Why is accessibility now plastered text across a Lemmy pic? In scenarios that have never been considered accessibility critical?

    I can see the image, and I can see the text… no meta data for screen readers… Why are we now rendering sentences VISUALLY onto images?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I think you're complaining that your lemmy client displays the alt text over the image. Mine does that with videos, which I also find annoying, but not with images. In any case, it is a client issue, so you could ask your developer nicely for an option to disable this behaviour (or look in the settings if it's already possible)

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